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Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

In my case, I can sincerely say that nothing is impossible... When I was saying I want to be No. 1 of the world, and I was seven or eight years old, most of the people were laughing at me because it seems like I have one percent of chances to do that, and I've done it.

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

I have belly fat like everybody else, and I don't want to be airbrushed on the cover of a magazine.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.

I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.